The following table shows ceremonial ranking and type of pottery sherd for a ran

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The following table shows ceremonial ranking and type of pottery sherd for a random sample of 434 sherds at an archaeological location.

Use a chi-square test to determine if ceremonial ranking and pottery type are independent at the 0.05 level of significance.

(a) What is the level of significance?

(b) Find the value of the chi-square statistic for the sample. (Round the expected frequencies to at least three decimal places. Round the test statistic to three decimal places.)

(c) What are the degrees of freedom?

(d) Find or estimate the P-value of the sample test statistic. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)

(e) Based on your answers in parts (a) to (c), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis of independence?

Since the P-value > , we fail to reject the null hypothesis.

Since the P-value > , we reject the null hypothesis.     

Since the P-value , we reject the null hypothesis.

Since the P-value , we fail to reject the null hypothesis.

Ceremonial Ranking Cooking Jar Sherds Decorated Jar Sherds (Noncooking) Row Total A 87 48 135 B 90 55 145 C 74 80 154 Column Total 251 183 434

Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

Contingency table results:
Rows: Ceremonial Ranking
Columns: None

Chi-Square test:

Hence,

a) Level of significance = 0.05

b) Chi - square statistic = 9.528

c) Degrees of freedom = 2

d) P - value = 0.009

e) Since the P-value , we reject the null hypothesis.

Cooking Jar Sherds Decorated Jar Sherds (Noncooking) Total A 87 48 135 B 90 55 145 C 74 80 154 Total 251 183 434

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